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At the end of a dirt road, at 7,000 feet, with a million and a half acres of national forest beyond the fence, the nearest real glow is a long way off. On a moonless night the Milky Way runs from ridge to ridge, bright enough to show its dark lanes.
To see the most: come within a few nights of the new moon, give your eyes twenty to thirty minutes of real dark, and use the red flashlight. The star decks face open sky.
Adapted from the Five Principles for Responsible Outdoor Lighting, DarkSky International and the Illuminating Engineering Society.
Most songbirds migrate at night and steer partly by the stars; stray light pulls them off course. Owls, bats, moths and the frogs in the beaver ponds all depend on real darkness. A dark valley is part of why the birds find this bowl, and part of why the wetlands came back.
It matters for people, too. Guests tell us the first clear night is when the place really lands: no screen, no glow on the horizon, just the size of it. We would like to keep that, for them and for the neighbors who were here first.
Working towardDarkSky Approved Lodging.
DarkSky Approved Lodging is a designation granted by DarkSky International. We are working toward it and will say so plainly when, and if, it is granted.
